What Zombie Films should aspire too . .

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2003)

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This film works well, the acting is of a high quality, and it scares appropriately. Where this film really excels though is in its presentation of the characters. The film invites its audience to sympathise with the main protagonists, enables the viewer to feel the despair and encroaching madness that such a horrific event would bring to bear on any left surviving. The society left behind after this amazing event has evidently been thought about a little more than most - the audience are presented with those who choose to live alone - those who have resorted to staying in large groups - many different ways of coping from giving up to almost ignorance of what has happened. The score to the film guides the emotion also, one standout moment in the film was when the little girl witnessed *that* - it felt so real, so gut wrenchingly soul-destroying - complemented by superb directing and an emotive score.
Basically the best advice to give for a film that seems to split opinion like this is to just go and buy it for yourself - make up your own mind. I like to think of it as a moder-day version of Dawn of the Dead - so if you like that then maybe you'll like this - but who knows? :)